--- title: Popcorn pops because water inside each kernel turns to steam until t… — Cooking is chemistry · tree and pragmatics description: Popcorn pops because water inside each kernel turns to steam until the hard shell bursts; dried-out kernels pop badly. Who acts: Popcorn, water, hard shell, dried kernels. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Popcorn, water, hard shell, dried kernels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:010-cooking-is-chemistry.lesson:9 # text = Popcorn pops because water inside each kernel turns to steam until the hard shell bursts; dried-out kernels pop badly. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 010-cooking-is-chemistry.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Popcorn popcorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 pops pop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 inside inside ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 kernel kernel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 10 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 11 until until SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:det 13 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod 14 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound 15 bursts burst VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 19 out out NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound 20 kernels kernel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 pop pop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 22 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pop** | present | Popcorn | | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **turn** | present | water inside each kernel | | | steam | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to steam=Trajectory | | 3 | **burst** | present | the hard shell | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **pop** | present | dried kernels | | | | | badly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:chemistry:010-cooking-is-chemistry.lesson:9`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Cooking is chemistry, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/8/) - next →: [Cooking is chemistry, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/)